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by cl0rkster 2293 days ago
Yes, when people lack morals, you are correct. In a world where your every word, thought, and idea isn't pre-chewed and then fed into your brain through some form of lighted rectangle, that is completely false. There's a very good reason that some people are DEEPLY inspired by the novel Atlas Shrugged. It took Ayn Rand an enormous number of pages to make her point. More than an internet comment ever will. Most people will read that and watch a lighted rectangle fill their head with what "new" ideas might be in this book. Almost nobody will read it. Even fewer will speak up. Markets can't be free if people are in mental slavery. Like Morpheus said... Most people will fight to protect the system that enslaves them.